Story planning

One of my most popular posts is for my Romance Beat Sheet, but one of my readers asked if I could create a Scrivener template to go along with the Romance Beat Sheet. Yes! If you're a romance author and use Scrivener for drafting your stories, today's post is for you.

Using a story planner template is an effective way to ensure a positive short story writing experience for both new writers and established ones alike.

Last time, we discussed Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat craft book and how we can use his writing tools to revise our work. His beat sheet points out when story events (beats) should occur in a screenplay, and most of his advice applies to all forms of fiction writing. Whether we dig into the structure of our stories […]

There's a lot of things that you need to consider when writing stories. You can use any of these story outline templates to create a good piece of work.

Have you ever had the vibes of your story figured out but no plot? This post gives you an easy process to find out what actually happens in yor novel

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Master story planning worksheet

One of my favorite ways to outline or plan a story is to map it out like a subway or road map. Here's how this technique works. Each road or subway line

Example of Sticky Note Story Map/ Board. Could be used in ELA for Reading (Summarize your a Story) or Writing (Planning out a Story).